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Up to nowadays, satellite data have become increasingly available, thus offering a low cost or even free of charge unique tool, with a great potential for quantitative assessment of urban expansion and urban sprawl, as well as for monitoring of land use changes and soil consumption. This growing observational capacity has also highlighted the need for research efforts aimed at exploring the potential...
The inestimable value of soil is exemplarily summarized in the definition provided by the European Union (2006), which considers it as "the upper layer of the earth's crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms".The importance of soil protection is now universally recognized, but despite a lot of debates and principle’s enunciation, in the last decades...
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